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Also, is the current Unity formatting final? It may be just me but it feels like the word Unity and the card type run together. Was anything such as
"Unity: Evil Character (Rome)" considered?

This is originally how Unity was proposed.  Actually, I can't remember if I proposed it with a colon or a hyphen.  Either way, I personally like a punctuation division, but that doesn't mean the final format will be that way.

#TeamColon

For reference here are all of them written out:

Unity Evil Character (Rome)

Unity: Evil Character (Rome)

Unity - Evil Character (Rome)

I think I may be switching to team hyphen after seeing it written out but once again I'd gladly take either a colon or hyphen over nothing.

I guess the main disadvantage of the hyphen is that it's wide.

The identifier is a very limited space but we can add a colon.

Is there a problem with cutting Heroes or Evil Characters?

For example if there was an implied alignment to Unity you could just have

Unity - Roman
Unity - OT Red

Etc

What if I want a unity Hero that requires all Lost Souls to be O.T.? Unity theoretically works for card types other than just the card it's on.

Unity (Evil Characters, Roman) could also work. That should be the same length as one with the colon.

Honestly, I don't think it's really that big of a deal to not have any punctuation aside from the parentheses around the characteristic. If someone doesn't know what the "Unity" keyword means then it wouldn't make a difference and then once they understand what it means then it's not very confusing since there's nothing else "Unity Evil Characters" could mean. As far as appearance is concerned, I think adding the colon is more clean and concise, but logistically not necessary since space on the identifier is very limited.

I also like Aggie's idea of doing "Unity (Evil Characters, Roman)." This fits more along the lines of Taunt, which in the case of Shimei is "Taunt (Opponent must skip their next battle phase. Limit once.)."

Is this unity type going to mean we'll be seeing some more single color only decks or will there still be a use for multi-colored decks? Or am I reading the unity option wrong?

Hopefully Unity will provide incentive to build mono brigade decks but I'm sure that unless heavy punish cards are printed splash decks will still be quite viable.

Is this unity type going to mean we'll be seeing some more single color only decks or will there still be a use for multi-colored decks? Or am I reading the unity option wrong?

To some degree yes there will likely be more single color decks, but also keep in mind that Unity isn't necessarily about the brigade. For example, there could be a Unity identifier for Heroes that is simply "O.T." which means you could splash a bunch of different brigades as long as they are all O.T. Likewise, a Unity for Philistines could still work with all the older Philistines ECs that aren't black.